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Trade.
Number on
Register.
Persons Employed.
Males.
Females.
Blouse makers
15
—
20
Cleaners and Dyers
2
1
2
Dressmakers
7
—
8
Embroiderers
55
—
66
Florists
1
—
1
Glove makers
54
-
6 4
Milliners
4
-
4
Shoemakers
10
12
—
Tailors
24
9
18
Underclothing makers
5
—
6
Upholsterers
1
-
3
Total
178
22
192
Intimations were served in seven instances to remedy
defects discovered on out-workers' premises. No case of
notifiable infectious disease occurred on these premises during
the year.
Factories.
The Factory Act contains a special sanitary code for
factories, which is administered by the Factory Inspectors;
but for the most part this code supplements but does not
replace the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act,
which are administered by the Sanitary Authorities. The
definition of the word "house" in the latter Act includes a
factory, and where there is no express statutory provision to